On 5/12/22 7:30 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote:
I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not
adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first
converting the word-2010 documents to word-2016. Writer could not
adequately handle those. Either way, I lose roughly half the text,
plus some of the formatting other than fonts. It seems the problem
is the "frames" in the word documents. There is a LibreOffice bug on
this. So I find my wisest option is to convert the files to
LibreOffice now, even if it's somewhat manual. And the conversion
must be done on the windows box.
That makes sense, convert them before you're in a hurry to need them.
You can run some office software in Linux (emulators or virtual
environments), that could help with copying and pasting. Unless you'd
prefer to run LibreOffice (for example) on Windows, and not have to
bother with trying to get Windows software to run.
There can be some benefit in remaking documents from scratch (removing
peculiar fonts bigger, fonts smaller, fonts bigger, fonts smaller
instructions that crept in between paragraphs, for example). When I've
had to convert things before, I've often pasted slabs of text into a
plain text editor, in the middle, then copy and pasted from there to
the next application, to completely remove all formatting. Often the
remove formatting options in word processors only does a partial job.
A particular bugbear was trying to get them to not stylise a web
address as a clickable link. Once it had done that, there was almost
no undoing of it within the program.
It sounds like you were using Word more as desktop publishing rather
than typing. The fancier stuff isn't really the forté of word
processors, other applications may be more suitable.
With both office word and LibreOffice Writer on the windows-7 box, this
has not been difficult. I have a Writer template. For each document, I
do 4 selects from the word document, and pastes into the Writer
template. Then in the Writer template, there's 8 line-spacing
adjustments. Finally "Save As...".
Thank-you, Tim.
Bill.
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